Agora is an AI search engine for e-commerce products that helps Shopify and WooCommerce stores sell more. We don't take a commission of sales, orders are routed to your existing point of sale system, and inventory is automatically uploaded and refreshed.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Param, founder of Agora.
Agora is an AI search engine for e-commerce products. We've indexed 4 million products sold on 8,100 Shopify and WooCommerce stores and made them easy to purchase with a single cart transaction. We launched the search engine on Product Hunt a few weeks ago and received incredible feedback and support from the community.
Today I’m excited to launch Agora Merchants, a web dashboard that helps Shopify and WooCommerce merchants sell more on our search engine! Agora Merchants connects to your existing e-commerce store without any painful setup required and helps you track your store's performance on Agora.
Why use Agora Merchants?
🔸 Unlike other marketplaces, we don't take a commission of sales.
🔸 Orders are routed to your store's existing point of sale system.
🔸 Inventory is automatically uploaded and refreshed with our crawlers.
When an order is placed on Agora, our AI-powered backend purchases the product on your store with the email [email protected]. This helps us manage the order tracking on behalf of the customer.
Agora Merchants is completely free to use. You can sign up to the free Basic tier to automatically upload your products and track analytics including impressions, opens, clicks, reviews, abandoned carts, and sales.
By upgrading to a paid plan, you get functionality designed to increase your sales and save you time.
🔹 Store customization: Upload a logo, banner, and tags to help customers find you.
🔹 Verified products: Get more traffic with products that rank higher in results.
🔹 Integrations: Add Agora customer data to your CRM or automate email follow up.
I originally launched Agora as a side project on HackerNews to find a pair of red shoes for my wife last Christmas. I quickly realized that some of the best products on the internet are sold by small online stores that struggle to get the same visibility as large retailers. I started Agora on a mission to democratize online commerce. If you sell the best pair of red shoes in the world, customers should be able to find it.
So how is this different than Amazon? Both Amazon and Agora give network effects to stores (i.e. if you're searching for red shoes from one store, you may also want to buy a red dress sold by a different store). The key difference with Agora is that you continue selling on your existing e-commerce store, without having to manage inventory and payouts on another platform. This creates a magical experience for our merchants that saves them hundreds of hours. We believe in a future where merchants can sell however they want, we just bring them more customers. And we're already working with some incredible e-commerce brands including Ekouaer, Do Only Good Pets, Calzuro, Skelton Optics, V-Dog, and more.
⭐ As a small thank you to the Product Hunt community, we're offering $50 off the first month of the $99 Starter tier which unlocks 3 verified products, 250 product opens, and store customization. You can subscribe here.
I'd love your feedback! You can also reach me at [email protected].
Congrats on launching Agora Merchants! The AI-driven indexing of products and the unified checkout experience sound like a win-win for both customers and smaller e-commerce stores looking to gain visibility. I love how you’ve addressed the integration headaches by routing orders through existing POS systems and automatically syncing inventory. I’m curious: as merchants list more products and shoppers discover new brands through Agora, how do you ensure a fair balance between well-known retailers and emerging stores so everyone has a chance to stand out? Looking forward to seeing how Agora evolves the e-commerce landscape!
This could really streamline my e-commerce store's sales process. How does Agora ensure accurate inventory updates in real-time?
would love to use this but will have to contact support as our shop URL (mightywallet.shop) is not the same as our email. Question: Does this improves SEO as well?
Congratulations on launching Agora! It’s incredible how you’re empowering small businesses while making product discovery seamless for customers. Wishing you and the team great success in revolutionizing e-commerce @param_jaggi3 @alessandro_colombo
Plug: Btw I run a SaaS marketing agency (content marketing specially!), do feel free to let me know if I could be of any help.
if only I had something to sell besides my questionable taste in novelty products
would love to use this but will have to contact support as our shop URL (mightywallet.shop) is not the same as our email. Question: Does this improves SEO as well?
Super , impressed with how easy it is to route orders to my existing POS system. Saves so much hassle!
Agora offers a powerful AI search engine for e-commerce. This Is Amazing! Inventory management just got a whole lot easier! Congratulations!
I remember supporting Agora last month!
Keeping inventory data fresh and accurate for millions of products across thousands of stores sounds like a huge challenge. How does Agora tackle this to ensure shoppers always see the right products in stock?
I bet e-commerce brands love you, nothing quite like selling more & bumping up that MRR - UI looks extremely clean & usable, I'm not a vendor personally although I easily see the appeal for this!
Best of luck with the launch Param & team!!
Hi ProductHunt! I'm Ale, Head of Growth at Agora.
E-commerce stores have so many choices when it comes to distribution, so why are they choosing Agora?
📈 Growing sales and brand awareness - 150,000 pages indexed by Google and growing by the day.
⭐️ Direct traffic to stores - Customers can access store websites directy from Agora to learn more about a brand. Stores can easily track traffic within their analytics platform via UTMs.
🔁 Leverage network effects and growth loops - More stores joining Agora translates to more products customers can choose from, therefore increasing multi-store orders. In turn, more views lead to more pages being crawled by Google and therefore higher visibility for our stores.
🌅 Being at the forefront of innovation - AI-powered shopping is growing exponentially in popularity with e-commerce customers, join the revolution.
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback about how we think about Growth at Agora!
